Twain, Alcott, and the Birth of the Adolescent Reform Novel

by Roberta S. Trites

Trites argues that Twain and Alcott wrote on similar topics because they were so deeply affected by the Civil War, by cataclysmic emotional and financial losses in their families, by their cultural immersion in the tenets of Protestant philosophy, and by sexual tensions that may have stimulated their interest in writing for adolescents, Trites demonstrates how the authors participated in a cultural dynamic that marked the changing nature of adolescence...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1587296225
• ISBN13: 9781587296222
• Release Date: November 2007
• Publisher: University of Iowa Press
• Length: 236 Pages
• Weight: 0.97 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 9.3"